I'd try that approach first, though the mirror is a good idea that will probably have to be implemented anyhow once we start adding slaves, having real info on the network usage/errors will give us insight to actually determine what's the issue, and thus, what's the best solution.
@infra what do you think?
The issue with mirroring is how can you make sure that you mirror fast enough to enable CI. Even if Gerrit can push to the mirror on patch submission, there will still be some time delta between the submission happening (and the patch event showing up in Jenins) and the mirror being synced. This looks like a nasty race condition. What the mirror essentially does is make sure that bits are copied from Amazom to PHX just once. I wonder if we can get the same benefit with a simple HTTP proxy, how proxy-able is the Git HTTP protocol? -- Barak Korren bkorren@redhat.com RHEV-CI Team